Hockey Shtick

If you thought former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's tell-all memoir—published while Mr. Gates's former boss, Barack Obama, was still in office—was ill-timed, think again. Australians are now being treated to revelations about their sitting politicians, courtesy of their sitting Treasurer.

At least Joe Hockey didn't write his new biography, titled "Not Your Average Joe." That honor went to journalist Madonna King, no friend of the conservative Liberal Party. Mr. Hockey says he agreed to "cooperate"...